You Know What Grinds My Gears? - Things that personally piss you off

[AnOminous]

Honestly, there should be a policy in all stores that if you directly touch food, like it has no packaging, you have to buy it.

That's bullshit. You can't even tell if a melon is good or not without at least weighing it. I'm not buying a shit melon to appease some retard's squeamishness. Wash yo goddamn food.

You know what really will get you shit like Legionnaire's disease? Those mist sprays that they have in every produce section. They're germ factories.

 

[Fraiser crane]

the world being bipolar

 

[Jason Wynn]

When you stretch your legs in bed and you have those few seconds of awareness right before a massive charley horse comes galloping in.

 

[Nonconsentual Pronouns]

Honestly, there should be a policy in all stores that if you directly touch food, like it has no packaging, you have to buy it.

Anyone who buys fruits or vegetables without properly inspecting them is deranged. Anyone who doesn't wash their fruits and vegetables before eating them is also deranged.

Common knowledge tip: Your fruit will not taste anything like what it should if it was picked too soon, as it will never ripen and only rot. If you sniff the fruit near the stem or bloom and it doesn't smell like that fruit at all, put it back. An obvious exception is watermelon, but cantaloupe is not such an exception.

ETA: A big tipoff should be the fact that it's generally cheaper by weight to buy your produce prepackaged rather than loose, which you select each piece yourself. It costs them extra in materials, time and manpower/machines to prebag that shit. These companies rest easy knowing that most people will never open up the sack of oranges to see if they're actually yellow without that red fucking netting over them that should be illegal. They make back that money and then some by tricking lazy retards into buying their shit that you wouldn't pick out yourself.

I am that person who will open up the clamshells of strawberries in order to pick out the shitty ones and swap them for good ones, and anyone who doesn't like it can cry into their prematurely picked white and mushy strawberries that they didn't pick through themselves because they're a good little goy.

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

It's also been a godsend to me when I've gotten sick and can't leave my house, but I really want some medicine and other essentials. My grandparents also make use of it quite often since my grandpa's too frail to leave home most of the time. But I make a point not to rely on it and actually go out and do my own shopping, if for no other reason than simply because I like doing things myself, and because my grocery store is within walking distance*.



*In my opinion, "walking distance" is within 3 miles.

I use it to make some poor fucker haul 6 two liter bottles of kvass my mom craved and frozen goods on sale cause they have large freezer bag and I don't.

I am that person who will open up the clamshells of strawberries in order to pick out the shitty ones and swap them for good ones, and anyone who doesn't like it can cry

Now THAT is plain evil. Do you also move broken eggs into other boxes?

 

[Nonconsentual Pronouns]

Now THAT is plain evil. Do you also move broken eggs into other boxes?

I have actually had to do that during the egg "crisis". Every fucking carton in that store had at least one broken egg and I was having none of that shit. It looked like some nine month hotel let her kid go to town on the poor things, which is very likely at a base commissary.

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

I have actually had to do that during the egg "crisis". Every fucking carton in that store had at least one broken egg and I was having none of that shit. It looked like some nine month hotel let her kid go to town on the poor things, which is very likely at a base commissary.

You know, normal reaction is to tolerate that one egg if it is not spoiled.

 

[internet friend]

Those drinks that have pictures of fruit plastered all over them to make them look like juice, but in tiny writing down the bottom say "fruit drink". Fuck off with this watered down crap, I want real juice. Stop trying to trick me.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Friends just ending said friendship over text. Can't talk to them, see their face, anything. It feels like shit.

Also car fuses. I've been pulling those like crazy, and even then, I think the PCM at this point is fried. What's the point of the fuse if the main board just gets fried anyway?

 

[Spud]

Friends just ending said friendship over text. Can't talk to them, see their face, anything. It feels like shit.

Ain't worth worrying about it, if they can't bring the issue up with you. If it's that big a problem you'd bring it up wouldn't you?

 

[WelperHelper99]

Ain't worth worrying about it, if they can't bring the issue up with you. If it's that big a problem you'd bring it up wouldn't you?

Easy to say, harder to process. We'd already talked through shit, I thought we were going to get past this, then bam, just drops me. A guy I've known for years. I hate having instant communication. At least with a call I can hear your voice.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Easy to say, harder to process. We'd already talked through shit, I thought we were going to get past this, then bam, just drops me. A guy I've known for years. I hate having instant communication. At least with a call I can hear your voice.

The farms are all the fren you'll ever need. Besides, it might not be personal, it might be, but it also might not be. They may have bigger shit going on and this needs to be done for them.

Support your friend by never speaking to them again.

 

[WelperHelper99]

The farms are all the fren you'll ever need. Besides, it might not be personal, it might be, but it also might not be. They may have bigger shit going on and this needs to be done for them.

Support your friend by never speaking to them again.

I'll leave him alone like he wants. But I'm letting our group know. I'll say this much, I'm a asshole in life. In this case, I'm not. I know I'm not. I've gone out of my way to show that I care. When you're my friend, I will do just about anything for you. And I've done a lot for him. Been through a lot with him. And all I get for it is a text message saying I've been gaslighting him the entire time. If I have any fault, it's that I'm awkward in social settings and say my opinions, popular or unpopular.

He is going thru shit rn. I'll say that. It's no reason to push me away.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

He is going thru shit rn. I'll say that. It's no reason to push me away.

Let him figure shit out on his own time, on his own terms. Piling on more stress won't help you, him or the friendship. I hope it works out for you in the end.

OT. People at work who say one thing, do another, then get mad at people for doing exactly that. Be the change you want to see, fucko.

 

[Sniperwoof]

I'm getting increasingly frustrated with friends who just want to get together and get fucking destroyed with drugs and alchohol every weekend.

I work a full time professional job and I barely have enough time to indulge my hobbies and relax as it is.

I'm not averse to having a few beers but we haven't been stupid teenagers in a long time. Time to grow up a little.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

I'm getting increasingly frustrated with friends who just want to get together and get fucking destroyed with drugs and alchohol every weekend.

This is because you have an entire generation of people who have nothing else to do or live for. You act like that as long as you don't have responsibilities. Once you have responsibilities, that ends. If you have no responsibility or duty or other sense of purpose, you wind up doing this for a long time because you simply don't have anything better to do. This is what happens when you get a generation of people who don't get married, don't have kids, and probably don't own property. You have endless teenagers. The party never has to stop because it has no *reason* to stop and no job or career will ever be difficult enough to stop it. You have nothing to take care of. Someday though, it WILL stop.

 

[DavidS877]

Also car fuses. I've been pulling those like crazy, and even then, I think the PCM at this point is fried. What's the point of the fuse if the main board just gets fried anyway?

I know you're just venting, but the secret to fuses is.... they protect the wiring.

Fuses and breakers are almost never designed to protect the downstream item, they're primarily there to protect the wiring and keep it from overheating and catching fire. In my house for instance, the computer is on a 15A circuit, if the computer ever gets over 15 amps it's almost certainly already dead but the house wiring won't be impacted. The device themselves have to be made with internal protection, if by additional overcurrent protection, surge protection, etc.

The other fun fuse/breaker fact is that they may say "20 Amps" but if you look at the chart they'll probably tolerate 21 Amps for a long time, and 22 Amps for slightly less and 40 Amps for a second or two. At which point most devices will be fried, but the wire will be barely warm.

 

[Mr. Confederate Man]

I know you're just venting, but the secret to fuses is.... they protect the wiring.

Fuses and breakers are almost never designed to protect the downstream item, they're primarily there to protect the wiring and keep it from overheating and catching fire. In my house for instance, the computer is on a 15A circuit, if the computer ever gets over 15 amps it's almost certainly already dead but the house wiring won't be impacted. The device themselves have to be made with internal protection, if by additional overcurrent protection, surge protection, etc.

The other fun fuse/breaker fact is that they may say "20 Amps" but if you look at the chart they'll probably tolerate 21 Amps for a long time, and 22 Amps for slightly less and 40 Amps for a second or two. At which point most devices will be fried, but the wire will be barely warm.

To piggyback off of this, cars are rough on electrical components, so make sure that any and all connections are good. That PCM may have gotten fried due to something as simple as a wire turning green from heat or water contact. Given that new stuff sometimes runs on milliamperes or shifting grounds, it doesn’t take much to knock out some systems.

Side note, this is why I like to drive stuff from the 80s. Much less complicated and very cheap to repair.

 

[Rozzy]

Got a new piece of tech today and tried to access product support only to be greeted by a Cloudflare access-denied message. I was in such a rage that I threw the new piece of tech on the floor and broke it. Back to the store it went and I got a full refund from the cashier, guess I need to control my temper. I was in a pleasant mood before the Cloudflare message caused a red mist to descend upon me.

 

[Chris Redfield]

I am honestly sick of how narcisstic everyone seems to be these days. The "main character" syndrome inflicted by social media. Everybody just seems so "me, me, me-" and I see it in all angles of my life. From clients at work to "friends" to people I vaguely know online. I used to work with a woman who would talk about herself non-stop and I would routinely find myself tuning out the white noise that was her boring fucking life. Since leaving that job and finding myself in another, I yet again work with a couple of women who talk about themselves non-stop. One is your stereotypical, pronouns in bio "muh fibro-" and the other is convinced she's hot shit.
Don't get me wrong though, it isn't just women - I've found more and more men talking non-stop about their own lives lately, too. Even brief encounters online, I find myself running more and more into people who feel the need to tell me deep, personal details about their lives. Like, it's good to talk and it's good to vent or get things off of your chest but I always thought that it should be equal. You talk about yourself, you should be willing to listen to the other person speak. Or even ask them opinions, thoughts or experiences, too. What makes it worse is that a lot of the time, the person telling me about their life generally has delusions of grandeur. Like they're doing me a favour by telling me about their IBS or their pet cats.

It's just all so "me, me, me" and the stories aren't even interesting. If I asked or if somebody told me about themselves and they had been through something interesting or lived a rich life, it would be cool but hearing about someone's fling or their fucking joint problems? God, talk to me about literally anything else, please.